Les Mikesell wrote at about 07:51:56 -0500 on Friday, August 20, 2010:
 > Farmol SPA wrote:
 > >   -------- Original Message  --------
 > > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc
 > > From: Mirco Piccin <pictux AT gmail DOT com>
 > > To: General list for user discussion, questions and support 
 > > <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
 > > Date: Wed Aug 18 2010 14:25:38 GMT+0200 (ora Legale Europa Occidentale)
 > >> Hi,
 > >>
 > >> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Farmol SPA <farmolspa AT gmail DOT com 
 > >> <mailto:farmolspa AT gmail DOT com>> wrote:
 > >>
 > >>     Hi list.
 > >>
 > >>     I would like to ask which is the simplest yet effective way to dump
 > >>     backuppc stuff (mainly __TOPDIR__) eg to a removable hard disk
 > >>     that will
 > >>     be used in a disaster recovery scenario where the plant were destroyed
 > >>     and I need to restore data from this survivor device. Is a "rsync -aH"
 > >>     enough?
 > >>
 > >>
 > >> you can use the Archive function:
 > >> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#archive_functions
 > > 
 > > Unfortunately the Archive function is too much time consuming for my 
 > > purpose. I will try the raw rsync -aH way, that for sure will take a bit 
 > > the first time but should be much faster next ones. We speak of 150GB 
 > > after all!
 > 
 > The practical limit for rsync or other file-oriented copies has more to do 
 > with 
 > the number of hardlinks than the size of the archive.
 > 

And just to be clear the consequence of what Les is saying is that it
is unlikely to be much if at all faster the next time.

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